Velos Media patent challenged

On December 29, 2020, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,743,086, owned by Velos Media as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The ‘086 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is the largest family known to be owned by Velos and represents approximately 5.3% of Velos’ known U.S. assets. Velos claims to have and seeks to license patents allegedly essential to the HEVC / H.265 standard.

Unified is represented by David Cavanaugh, Scott Bertulli, Brian Lambson, and Jonathan Knight all of WilmerHale, and in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding. Visit Unified’s Public Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN). Read the request below.

Request for Ex Parte Reexamination - US Patent No. 9,743,086 (Velos) by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

First UK challenge filed by Unified against Velos Media

As part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone, Unified filed its first UK challenge against EP 2 664 149, owned by Velos Media International Limited. The EP ‘149 patent is related to U.S. Patent 9,414,066, which Unified has also challenged in the U.S. (IPR2020-00352, instituted June 30, 2020). The EP ‘149 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is one of the largest families known to be owned by Velos. Velos claims to have and seeks to license patents allegedly essential to the HEVC / H.265 standard. EP’149 is directed to video decoding techniques and was originally assigned to Ericsson before being transferred to Velos.

Read the entire filing below. Unified is represented by Dr. Simon Q. Lud (European Patent Attorney) and Christopher Holtby (UK and European Patent Attorney) at Maiwald Intellectual Property, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

EP 2 664 149 B1 UK petition by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

GE Video Compression patent challenged

On December 23, 2020, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,057,603, owned by GE Video Compression LLC (GEVC). The ‘603 patent has been designated as essential in the HEVC Advance patent pool.

Unified is represented by Eric Buresh and Jocelyn Ram of Erise IP, and in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Ashraf Fawzy, in this proceeding. Visit Unified’s Public Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN). Read the request below.

10,057,603 Reexam Request by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

IP Investments Group entity patent challenged as likely invalid

On December 22, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 6,560,613, owned by DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘613 patent relates generally to disambiguating file types on a computer system. The patent has been asserted against Box, Extreme Networks, F5 Networks, 1&1 Ionos, and Wix.com.

View district court litigations by DataCloud Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Drew Sommer and Kyle Chen of Greenberg Traurig, and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander, Jung Hahm, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

$1,500 Awarded for Mountech IP prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who received a cash prize of $1,500 for their prior art submission for U.S. Patent 7,991,784. The patent is owned by Mountech IP, an NPE and IP Edge subsidiary. The ‘784 patent generally relates to a method for automatic dynamic contextual data entry completion system. The ‘784 patent has been asserted in district court against ZTE, Samsung, Motorola, Blackberry, and LG.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

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